2 Samuel 17

1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

and to say Ahithophel to(wards) Absalom to choose please two ten thousand man and to arise: rise and to pursue after David [the] night

2 And I will come on him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:

and to come (in): come upon him and he/she/it weary and weak hand and to tremble [obj] him and to flee all [the] people which with him and to smite [obj] [the] king to/for alone him

3 And I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

and to return: return all [the] people to(wards) you like/as to return: return [the] all [the] man: husband which you(m. s.) to seek all [the] people to be peace

4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

and to smooth [the] word in/on/with eye: appearance Absalom and in/on/with eye: appearance all old: elder Israel

5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he says.

and to say Absalom to call: call to please also to/for Hushai [the] Archite and to hear: hear what? in/on/with lip: word his also he/she/it

6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spoke to him, saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak you.

and to come (in): come Hushai to(wards) Absalom and to say Absalom to(wards) him to/for to say like/as Chronicles [the] this to speak: speak Ahithophel to make: do [obj] word: speaking his if nothing you(m. s.) to speak: speak

7 And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good at this time.

and to say Hushai to(wards) Absalom not pleasant [the] counsel which to advise Ahithophel in/on/with beat [the] this

8 For, said Hushai, you know your father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

and to say Hushai you(m. s.) to know [obj] father your and [obj] human his for mighty man they(masc.) and bitter soul they(masc.) like/as bear childless in/on/with land: country and father your man battle and not to lodge with [the] people

9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

behold now he/she/it to hide in/on/with one [the] pit or in/on/with one [the] place and to be like/as to fall: kill in/on/with them in/on/with beginning and to hear: hear [the] to hear: hear and to say to be plague in/on/with people which after Absalom

10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

and he/she/it also son: warrior strength which heart his like/as heart [the] lion to melt to melt for to know all Israel for mighty man father your and son: warrior strength which with him

11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.

for to advise to gather to gather upon you all Israel from Dan and till Beersheba Beersheba like/as sand which upon [the] sea to/for abundance and face of your to go: went in/on/with battle

12 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

and to come (in): come to(wards) him (in/on/with one *Q(k)*) [the] place which to find there and to rest upon him like/as as which to fall: fall [the] dew upon [the] land: soil and not to remain in/on/with him and in/on/with all [the] human which with him also one

13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

and if to(wards) city to gather and to lift: bear all Israel to(wards) [the] city [the] he/she/it cord and to drag [obj] him till [the] torrent: valley till which not to find there also pebble

14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom.

and to say Absalom and all man Israel pleasant counsel Hushai [the] Archite from counsel Ahithophel and LORD to command to/for to break [obj] counsel Ahithophel [the] pleasant to/for in/on/with for the sake of to come (in): bring LORD to(wards) Absalom [obj] [the] distress: harm

15 Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counceled.

and to say Hushai to(wards) Zadok and to(wards) Abiathar [the] priest like/as this and like/as this to advise Ahithophel [obj] Absalom and [obj] old: elder Israel and like/as this and like/as this to advise I

16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

and now to send: depart haste and to tell to/for David to/for to say not to lodge [the] night in/on/with plain [the] wilderness and also to pass to pass lest to swallow up to/for king and to/for all [the] people which with him

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.

and Jonathan and Ahimaaz to stand: stand in/on/with En-rogel En-rogel and to go: went [the] maidservant and to tell to/for them and they(masc.) to go: went and to tell to/for king David for not be able to/for to see: see to/for to come (in): come [the] city [to]

18 Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; where they went down.

and to see: see [obj] them youth and to tell to/for Absalom and to go: went two their haste and to come (in): come to(wards) house: home man in/on/with Bahurim and to/for him well in/on/with court his and to go down there

19 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

and to take: take [the] woman and to spread [obj] [the] covering upon face: surface [the] well and to spread upon him [the] grain and not to know word: thing

20 And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

and to come (in): come servant/slave Absalom to(wards) [the] woman [the] house: home [to] and to say where? Ahimaaz and Jonathan and to say to/for them [the] woman to pass brook [the] water and to seek and not to find and to return: return Jerusalem

21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said to David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus has Ahithophel counceled against you.

and to be after to go: went they and to ascend: rise from [the] well and to go: went and to tell to/for king David and to say to(wards) David to arise: rise and to pass haste [obj] [the] water for thus to advise upon you Ahithophel

22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

and to arise: rise David and all [the] people which with him and to pass [obj] [the] Jordan till light [the] morning till one not to lack which not to pass [obj] [the] Jordan

23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

and Ahithophel to see: see for not to make: do counsel his and to saddle/tie [obj] [the] donkey and to arise: rise and to go: went to(wards) house: home his to(wards) city his and to command to(wards) house: home his and to strangle and to die and to bury in/on/with grave father his

24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

and David to come (in): come Mahanaim [to] and Absalom to pass [obj] [the] Jordan he/she/it and all man Israel with him

25 And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.

and [obj] Amasa to set: appoint Absalom underneath: instead Joab upon [the] army and Amasa son: child man and name his Ithra [the] Ishmaelite which to come (in): marry to(wards) Abigail daughter Nahash sister Zeruiah mother Joab

26 So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead.

and to camp Israel and Absalom land: country/planet [the] Gilead

27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

and to be like/as to come (in): come David Mahanaim [to] and Shobi son: child Nahash from Rabbah son: descendant/people Ammon and Machir son: child Ammiel from Lo-debar Lo-debar and Barzillai [the] Gileadite from Rogelim

28 Brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentils, and parched vegetables,

bed and basin and article/utensil to form: potter and wheat and barley and flour and roasted and bean and lentil and roasted

29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

and honey and curd and flock and cheese cattle to approach: bring to/for David and to/for people which with him to/for to eat for to say [the] people hungry and faint and thirsty in/on/with wilderness